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I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

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My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

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We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, and must here-after separate us. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

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They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable. ↗

— Philip Hone

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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself. ↗

— Jacques-Louis David

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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

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